From stuff like the legend of King Arthur and his magic BFF to the mischievous gods of Ancient Greece to the insane epics of Hindu mythology, just about every culture comes with a set of stories that most other cultures call foreign or strange. But then there are the universal myths—myths that crop up repeatedly in cultures separated by hundreds of miles and thousands of years. These myths are so near-universal that their prevalence is downright spooky.
The Meaning of Sparrows: Identification and Folklore. Sparrows: Passeridae The sparrow is a familiar little bird, and is widespread throughout Britain and Ireland (with the possible exception of upland and Northern districts).

It is also widespread throughout Europe, Asia, and Africa, and thanks to imports from settlers, they are prevalent in North and South America and Australia. In recent years numbers have been in decline and it is now less common to see flocks of them feeding or chirping from rooftops, although you should have no trouble spotting the house sparrow, especially in urban parks where people feed them.

There is an incredible amount of folklore and superstition surrounding these friendly little birds and they are even mentioned in the bible! I'm going to describe how to identify the different types of sparrow, address what we can do about their decline, and discuss how important they have been historically with all the legends surrounding them.
Living Myth: Imagination Applied to Life. Living Myth Imagination Applied to Life Orpheus and Eurydice - A Myth Rewritten Part One: The Return of Eurydice Part Two: The Beauty of Goodbye Part Three: The Flight of the Black Swan ***** Translations from the AndromedanAn Alternative Myth of Human Origins and Gender Conflict Preface by the Translator C O N T E N T S.

The Elf/Fae and Extra-Terrestrial Connection. The Elf/Fae and Extra-Terrestrial Connection When one speaks of Elves or Fairies, the images most commonly brought to mind in Western culture are ones of miniature people in pointy hats baking cookies in a hollowed-out tree trunk, or tiny women with wings and voluptuous curves sprinkling sparkling dust on sleepy children, allowing them to fly.

While there certainly do exist beings that fit those descriptions, a discussion of them and their role on our planet (and in our lives) is one for another day. This article will focus on the formidable, enchanting, human-sized beings who share our planet with us, often living in the wildest places where most humans never venture in our current times.
Remembering the End of the World (Full Documentary)

Templars: the Complete Story of the Knights Templar. Templars Templars artwork by David Saavedra The Complete Story of the Knights Templar --- Including their lives after 1307 ---

The Sumerian King List Spans for Over 241,000 Years Before a Great Flood. Out of the many incredible artifacts that have been recovered from sites in Iraq where flourishing ...

Out of the many incredible artifacts that have been recovered from sites in Iraq where flourishing Sumerian cities once stood, few have been more intriguing that the Sumerian King List, an ancient manuscript originally recorded in the Sumerian language, listing kings of Sumer (ancient southern Iraq) from Sumerian and neighboring dynasties, their supposed reign lengths, and the locations of "official" kingship.

What makes this artifact so unique is the fact that the list blends apparently mythical pre-dynastic rulers with historical rulers who are known to have existed.
The Epic of Gilgamesh Summary. Gilgamesh, the son of a man and a goddess, is king of the ancient Sumerian city-state of Uruk.

Oh, and he's also the strongest and most handsome man in the world. Must be nice.
The Legend of the Blair Witch: Myths that Created an Infamous Curse. When most people hear about the Blair witch, images come to mind of a horror film which was released in 1999 with a very low production budget.

The movie was directed by Daniel Myrick and Eduardo Sánchez and it was so successful that it spread across the world. However, Sánchez and Myrick based their production on a legend about a woman who many people claim was real: Elly Kedward. What did Elly do for her to be called a witch? What terrible events are said to have occurred in the last 300 years in certain forests of Maryland, USA?
Constellation Myths - The Stories Behind The Stars.

The Stories Behind The Stars Since ancient times, constellation myths have told the tales of gods and monsters, heroes and villains, and other legends using only the stars in the night sky.

Each of the 12 zodiac sign meanings can be found in these myths, along with their origins.
Lesson 1-1 - Fae Folk: The World of the Fae. 5 Ancient Legends About the Secret of Immortality. Chasing down the ancient world’s alchemical obsession with obtaining the Philospher’s Stone: the secret of immortality Mortality has tormented our consciousness since the first human witnessed death and realized his or her own eventual demise.

The inevitability of death and speculation upon the nature of afterlife has always been an object of obsession for mystics and philosophers. For many cultures, mortality is one of the major qualities that separates humanity from the Gods. While humans are born, subjected to the will of nature and die, the gods of the ancients and the gods of today are usually characterized as immortal; immune to the darkness that awaits every man and woman. Naturally, the earliest storytellers and holy men dreamed of ways to become immortal as well. In mythologies around the world, humans who achieve immortality are often regarded as gods, or as possessing god-like qualities. Lingzhi Mushroom (Via Wikimedia Commons) 1. Amanita Muscaria (via) 2.
Mythical Creatures and Beasts. [Occult Audiobook] The Story of Atlantis and Lemuria (The Mystic History of Human Evolution)
Ancient Submerged Cities.

The Races of Humanity. Language of the Birds - Green Language. The Language of the Birds Whistled languages based or constructed on or articulated natural languages used in some cultures are sometimes also referred to, and compared with, the language of the birds. The Secret Of The Strange Whistling Language Of Turkey Huffington Post - August 19, 2015 It's called the "bird language" because it sounds, well, like the whistle of birds. But make no mistake about it: the whistling language used by villagers in one part of Turkey is a very real and complex human language.

While the people of Kuskoy -- aka "Bird Village" -- speak Turkish up close, they switch to whistling to communicate over the vast distances of their community. If you look at the topography, it is clear how handy whistled communication is. Mythology. The Chaining of Saturn/Sol « Author Elva Thompson. In the beginning was the Golden Age, when men of their own accord, without threat of punishment, without laws, maintained good faith and did what was right….The earth itself, without compulsion, untouched by the hoe, unfurrowed by any share, produced all things spontaneously….it was a season of everlasting spring.

Ovid in the sixth book of his Metamorphoses. The Golden Age of Sol/Saturn Saturn/Sol. Joanna Lannister: carryalaser: Journals, articles, books & texts,...
The Fisher Kings Viracocha, Quetzalcoatl, Enki, Osirius, Vishnu, Oannes. Viracocha – Quetzalcoatl – Enki – Vishnu -Oannes. Five Legendary Lost Cities that have Never Been Found. The story of Atlantis is one of the most renowned and enduring tales of a lost city, said to have been swallowed up by the sea and lost forever. Yet, the story of Atlantis is not unique, as other cultures have similar legends of landmasses and cities that have disappeared under the waves, been lost beneath desert sands, or buried beneath centuries of vegetation. From the ancient homeland of the Aztecs, to jungle cities of gold and riches, we examine five legendary lost cities that have never been found.

Percy Fawcett and the Lost City of Z Since Europeans first arrived in the New World, there have been stories of a legendary jungle city of gold, sometimes referred to as El Dorado.
Witches, Vampires and Werewolves – 10 Ghoulish Archaeological Discoveries. Archaeologists are quite familiar with the unearthing of human remains. But occasionally they come across burials that are more bizarre and unsettling – from hybrid frankenstein-type skeletons, to ‘vampires’ pinned to the ground with wooden stakes, ‘witches’ held in their graves by heavy stones and individuals with stones wedged in their mouths, iron sickles against their throats, or holes in their skulls that had been drilled to exorcise evil spirits, there are no shortage of strange and grisly discoveries.

This Halloween we examine ten such ghoulish discoveries. Archaeologists uncover 'witch' burial in Italy In 2014, archaeologists uncovered an ancient skeleton of a teenage girl in Albenga, Italy, which had been buried face down.
Indo-European mythologies: genesis and evolution of characters. Undefined A. Fantalov. The Ancestral Myth of the Hollow Earth and Underground Civilizations.

Countless stories, myths, and legends are told about underground cities and subterranean civilizations spread through a vast network of interconnected tunnels across the planet. There are many rumors surrounding these underground portals.
The Mythology of the Constellations. The Epic of Gilgamesh Full Book. Yosemite legends : Smith, Bertha H. M. Manilii Astronomica : Manilius, Marcus.

ASTRONOMICA by Larry Carlson 2010. HYGINUS, ASTRONOMICA 1. We begin, then as we said above, with the Great Bear. Hesiod says she is named Callisto, daughter of Lycaon, who ruled in Arcadia.
Cthulhu Mythos Timeline - CthulhuWiki. Michael Tsarion - Enter The Dragon. Ancient Spain.

Mari/Mary- The real Mendes Mari, Mari Urraca, Anbotoko Mari ("the lady of Anboto") and the possibly distinct Murumendiko Dama ("lady of Murumendi") was a goddess — a lamia — of the Basques. She was married to the god Sugaar (also known as Sugoi or Majue). Legends connect her to the weather: that when she and Majue travelled together hail would fall, that her departures from her cave would be accompanied by storms or droughts, that which cave she lived in at different times would determine dry or wet weather: wet when she was in Anboto, dry when she was elsewhere (the details vary). Other places with where she was said to dwell include the chasm of Murumendi, the cave of Gurutzegorri (Ataun), Aitzkorri and Aralar, although it is not always possible to be certain which Basque legends should be considered to pertain to the same lamia.

Atlantis Empire. ATLANTIS & the Coming Ice Age, What Edgar Cayce & Plato Said About The Past & Future, Frank Joseph. 5 Ancient Interpretations for The Meaning of the Tree of Life. Stephanie Lucas, GuestWaking Times. THE AGES OF URAS - Page AG3. First Inhabitants As we have seen, when the Ušumgal and their Anunna, Mušgir, and Mìmínu (see Races) came sweeping down to the Earth, it was not as though there was no one to greet them.

Our planet already had a history and had its occupants. As a matter of fact, Uraš (Earth) had been colonized for a very long time before that awful moment. The Namlú'u had been created here, and under their guidance the Kingú and the Ama'argi Amašutum had been developing a number of primates who were by that time well established (Project Kingú). Mamitu-Nammu and the Ama'argi had been very actively developing a variety of life forms here ("Project Elohim"). The Two Ádamic Lines graphic farther down this page begins at a point in time 200,000 years prior to the arrival, and provides at least a glimpse of the two aforementioned "projects". A couple of points about the diagram: The entire lower grouping is a subfamily that should be seen as nested within the family Hominidae.